Hamlet's mother says to Hamlet, "Why seems it so particular with thee?" What is the difference between belief and make-belief? What makes us give to any one belief (since it is only a matter of shifting, tuning the mind) the peculiar weight of actuality? "For there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

To finish is a sadness to a writer- a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

Paul Scott

Quotes by Paul Scott

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